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Homeless in RI: (UPDATED) HUD report uses year old data; Dignity Bus; encampments, CES changes
Dignity Bus program, Woonsocket (Updated) Set to open on Monday, due to the storm, the Community Care Alliance took people in to the one floor emergency shelter on Social Street, The Serenity Center – and the Dignity Bus is set to open Tuesday, weather permitting. (Updated) Tuesday additional resources for homeless and housing support will…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: “A season in my life”. Pallet Shelters ordered. MA office use. Slow Dignity Bus
homeless in RI dec 2023
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Operation Stand Down opens historic Woonsocket home for female veterans
Woonsocket home for homeless female veterans by operation stand down ri
Read MoreHomeless in RI: Updates at 43 degrees, with winter 45 days away
Update from Rhode Island Housing: RI Housing has hired a new communications liaison – Patti Doyle. Doyle provided this update to RINewsToday: Pallet Shelters: “We have not confirmed a location for the pallet shelters as of this writing. We are looking at sites in both Providence and Pawtucket. The Newport Avenue site is not being…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: State’s new strategy. Shelters, housing, prevention, expansion, collaboration
Alongside faith and community leaders, state issues call to action for continued partnership and progress in preventing and addressing homelessness. Governor Dan McKee and Housing Secretary Stefan Pryor today outlined Rhode Island’s strategy for addressing homelessness through expanded shelter options and other services as winter approaches. Anchored around prevention, expansion and collaboration, the state’s strategy already…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: State shelter/housing plan for winter coming TODAY. Woonsocket discord.
RINewsToday has learned that the state’s Housing Department will release its plan TODAY – this morning – to address homelessness for the winter months. The plan will address emergency shelter and other housing options. The announcement will be made with partners, including religious groups. Some churches and temples tried to do emergency shelters a few…
Read MoreHomeless in RI – 10 families can soon move into Zambarano cottages in Burrillville
By: Christopher Shea – Rhode Island Current Photo, top: One of the cottages on the campus of the Zambarano unit of Eleanor Slater Hospital the state hopes to repurpose into a temporary shelter for unhoused families. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) Johnston nonprofit to provide services during nine-month lease approved Tuesday A temporary homeless…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: (update) Encampment news – Staffing changes – $10M to 27 – Housing jobs …
Update Sept. 30th Providence individual camping for “years” near the Orms Street/Marriott Hotel removed Providence had notified Michael Nugent, who has been living in an ever-growing, single-person encampment near the Marriott Hotel and the Orms Street exit from Route 95 North that he must vacant state land by 11am Friday, September 29th. The written notification…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: State funds $10 Million to 27 providers for shelter, services as cold weather looms
Wednesday morning, Rhode Island Housing announced new grants that have been made to address the homeless issue in the state – their announcement: Rhode Island Department of Housing Announces $10 Million in Awards to Prevent and Respond to Homelessness First round of determinations of funding for the FY24 Consolidated Homeless Fund have been issued to…
Read MoreIn the Arena: Eric Hirsch, advocate for homeless, PC professor
Homelessness in Rhode Island is one of the major issues of the time. Today, Joe Paolino Jr. host of “In the Arena” interviews Eric Hirsch, a homeless advocate and co-chair of the Homeless Management Information System Steering Committee. They discuss the housing shortage, affordable housing at high interest rates, rental issues, pallet housing, NIMBY issues,…
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